Online printing businesses are growing fast and making an impact. Pixartprinting
and PressUP in Italy and Wuhan New Only Printing in China each have different
visions and market approaches but all share confidence in the future as well as
trust in Komori. The shape of tomorrow.
Web-to-print is a sales and marketing-oriented business model for printers that runs on software hosted on web sites.Conquest Graphics in Virginia and Next Day Four Color in Texas have both grown rapidly using this model and operating multiple printing plants. And both printers have found that Komori Lithrones are the ideal hardware for succeeding in this fast-paced arena.
Komori at Tokyo Big Sight was the show to see and the booth was packed from start to finish. Four offset presses, including two new machines, two digital printing systems, a robust collection of postpress machines, and a full range of retrofit options and consumables. Total showstopper.
Komori is thinking about the future of printing and coming up with solutions: digital printing, the cloud and shifting resources to the creative realm. On display at IGAS 2018 will be new technologies and machines that will trigger significant change in the printing industry.
Digital printing in both sheetfed and web configurations is here and changing thecalculus of the printing business. At Print 17 in Chicago, the Impremia IS29 was in thespotlight, showing off its ability to output color rivaling offset on any substrate. At Komori America, a digital web and digital finishing. Plus, case studies of anImpremia IS29 installation by Mizukami Insatsu and a Truepress Jet520HD weboperating at Admail West.
Digital technologies are refashioning the world and Komori printing systems are no
exception. The Impremia IS29 and Impremia NS40 and the Komori ICT solutions that
manage them are just the start. On Press interviewed Shogo Kitabayashi, Group
General Manager, DPS Sales Promotion Group, on the outlook for new opportunities
promised by digital printing solutions.
Packaging printers enjoy growing demand and a full Komori arsenal of advanced presses to meet emerging needs. How some of the most important technologies in printing originated with Komori. Also, a look at the state of play in the field and the Lithrone GX40 Series machines that are carving out the future.